Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

What good is a truck?" the man went on. "Can it forage for its own fuel? Can it go where a camel goes? Can it repair its own wounds? Can it sire more trucks? Machines are no good here in the Emptiness!

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

There is something I want to do. But it's something to work towards, not something that should be handed to me on a plate. What's the point of doing something if you know you've got someone to rescue you if you fail? I like to work hard at something and then to reap the rewards. I take pride in what I do. What's the point if I know my rich husband will bail me out if I mess up?

It's a very good idea for everyone to learn to live single—to figure out how to get your needs met without being partnered so you don't find yourself seeking a partner to fill needs that you could equally well fill yourself.

There was nobody to help us. And nobody to stop us.

And most dreams can only be fulfilled by yourself. It's a bit like happiness: you can never depend on someone else for that elusive state of being. In the end we are all directly responsible for our own happiness... or lack thereof.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self.

The team that I belong to, the artists I put on wit dont ever ask for nothin cause them niggas got they own shit.

I thank everyone I don't love. They don't cause me heartache they don't make me write long letters they don't disturb my dreams I don't await them anxiously I don't read their horoscopes in magazines I don't dial their numbers I don't think of them. I thank them a lot they don't turn my life upside down.

One thing you can say about cats. They don't have to worry about kissing each other's asses. They can do that for themselves.

My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.